Matthew Newman, a 33-year-old from Bethesda, first checked his upper arm to see if he had received the smallpox vaccine as a child. Then, just to be sure the indentation he saw was really a scar from ...
Folks of a certain vintage have the tell-tale crater on their upper arms: The discolored, shallow scars from the smallpox vaccine. This ceased being a rite of passage in 1972, when the disease was ...
On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case occurred ...
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The head of the University of Iowa Department of Dermatology has been vaccinated for smallpox, saying the team that would respond to a smallpox outbreak needs someone who knows the ...
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